Re: how to install debian on a external USB disk

2010-11-20 Thread Yuwen Dai
I run with 2 external USB disks and have for years. Most of the time my root partition is on an USB disk. > > D-i is straight forward, just select the USB disk. Instead of grub I prefer > to run with SuperGrubDisk because that allows you to search for the right > partition and fill in what the roo

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-20 Thread teddieeb
Running etch your most likely running grub1. If this is the case you must edit your /boot/grub/menu.list There are entries for each item on your boot menu. You must create an entry for Windows 98, you define the location of your installation via the hd[0,1] entry. The first number is your di

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 20 November 2010 23:34:37 Long Wind wrote: > I have installed etch on hda4 > Now I add a scsi disk that have Windows 98 > Can grub boot Windows 98?? Yes. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: D

can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-20 Thread Long Wind
I have installed etch on hda4 Now I add a scsi disk that have Windows 98 Can grub boot Windows 98?? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin0

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-20 Thread s. keeling
ow...@netptc.net : > > GIYF Who? > http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/soft_dev/C_simple_ex.html (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ time pi 20 # of trials= 20 , estimate of pi is 3.14158 real4m41.812s user4m29.736s sys 0m0.055s Thanks. Fun to play with. Around 2 bil

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread teddieeb
You know; I have to side with Sthu on this. I run a testing install on my AMD 64 3200+ which is maxed out at two gigs of ram. My system runs fine without any problems and I use Ice Weasel, mind you, I also save bookmarks and such and though I run some tab nowhere near 200. Though I also often

Re: Unison-gtk profiles removal

2010-11-20 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 11/20/2010 05:44 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I just installed Unison-gtk 2.32.52 (squeeze) sync tool on a KDE, Squeeze system. How do you delete or edit a profile. There seems to be no provisions for either. Gary R. Look in /home//.unison. Each profile is represented by a plain text file such a

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 00:09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > There are other WebKit-based browsers besides Chromium out there and there are > other Gecko-based browsers besides FireFox / IceWeasel out there.  By > experimenting you may find one that is less bad for you than FireFox. Kazehakase

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 19 nov 10, 11:18:09, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > What's important to emphasise here is that I'm not an idiot. Camaleón, > I can tell the difference between a hardware problem and a software > problem. I fix computers for profit so I know how to troubleshoot > problems when I have a clear set

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 16:50:59 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > are you saying rkhunter is not worth running? Chosen at random. beX2, portacelo and devil rootkits: Distinguished by there being no evidence for their existence. A doctor telling me to avoid contracting beX2, portacelo or devil disea

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Frank
> > >I often wonder about this; IIRC, FF used to advertise itself as > > >"lightweight". Does it still do that? Was it ever accurate? > > > > It was lighter that the Mozilla suite that it "replaced". It was similar > > technology, but just a browser. It lacked the HTML editing abilities, the

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20101120185835.2915d9d3.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:43 -0600 >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> Much of the memory usage can be blamed on aggressive per-tab caching of >> webpages and/or extensions or plugins. Still, I find FF to cause me more >> problems th

Unison-gtk profiles removal

2010-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
I just installed Unison-gtk 2.32.52 (squeeze) sync tool on a KDE, Squeeze system. How do you delete or edit a profile. There seems to be no provisions for either. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:43 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20101119161324.2ed2f1a8.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 + (UTC) > >Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: > >> > After years of running the mozilla

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4ce83a40.5030...@pcartwright.com>, Paul Cartwright wrote: >On 11/20/2010 03:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Many people don't consider Debian stable up-to-date even with packages >> from security.debian.org and volatile.debian.org in use. It is possible >> that the development / releas

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4ce83c26.7000...@allums.com>, Mark Allums wrote: >On 11/20/2010 3:12 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >>> I'm unsure whether I have ever fully grasped the whole apt system, in all >>> it's glory, but why would a recommends ever be automatically

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/20/2010 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: > Well, don't run applications which output spurious warnings as a matter > of course. Purging rkhunter will do wonders for your blood pressure > without endangering your system. are you saying rkhunter is not worth running? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread gun_smoke
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:46:57PM +, Brian wrote: > > Well, don't run applications which output spurious warnings as a matter > of course. Purging rkhunter will do wonders for your blood pressure > without endangering your system. > I agree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 15:28:30 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I just don't like getting messages that tell me something is NOT > uptodate, when I am ALWAYS up to date.. Well, don't run applications which output spurious warnings as a matter of course. Purging rkhunter will do wonders for your bl

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 11/20/2010 3:12 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums  wrote: > >>> >>> I'm unsure whether I have ever fully grasped the whole apt system, in all >>> it's glory, but why would a recommends ever be aut

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
Paul Cartwright [2010.11.20 1528 -0500]: > On 11/20/2010 03:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> >Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and > >> >possibly a > >> >security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of > >> >date, and possibly a secu

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 11/20/2010 3:12 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: I'm unsure whether I have ever fully grasped the whole apt system, in all it's glory, but why would a recommends ever be automatically pulled in? Wouldn't it give the admin complete control ov

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/20/2010 03:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > File a bug against rkhunter, then. that is a thought.. >> >I just don't like getting messages that tell me something is NOT >> >uptodate, when I am ALWAYS up to date.. > Many people don't consider Debian stable up-to-date even with packages fr

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 11/20/2010 4:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >> On Saturday 20 November 2010 02:58:32 Jason Heeris wrote: >>> >>> On 20 November 2010 07:58, Javier Barroso  wrote: > > How can be blocked the installation of a package that is

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 11/20/2010 4:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 20 November 2010 02:58:32 Jason Heeris wrote: On 20 November 2010 07:58, Javier Barroso wrote: How can be blocked the installation of a package that is not installed? Pinning it to a negative number [1]? (I didn't try it) Thi

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4ce82f6e.3030...@pcartwright.com>, Paul Cartwright wrote: >On 11/20/2010 03:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> >Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and >>> >possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version >>> >'0.9.8n', is out of date, and possi

Re: Is DRI supposed to work in xserver-xorg-video-intel?

2010-11-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-11-20 21:28 +0100, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Once again, Sven, I owe you my sanity. I've read that Debian was still > looking into framebuffer issues with Intel, whether to keep UMS or > migrate to KMS. Is that debate related to the DRI/shadow issue? Well, yes. The attempt to reenable UMS

Re: Is DRI supposed to work in xserver-xorg-video-intel?

2010-11-20 Thread Borden Rhodes
Once again, Sven, I owe you my sanity. I've read that Debian was still looking into framebuffer issues with Intel, whether to keep UMS or migrate to KMS. Is that debate related to the DRI/shadow issue? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/20/2010 03:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and possibly a >> >security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of >> >date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'sshd', version >> >'5.5

Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Good day all I can't get cups to do anything but show the entry page at localhost:631. All of the other tabs display 500 Internal Server Error. This is on an AMD64 system. Cups was working on a 686 system but the system recently died so I have lost my print server. The AMD sys does

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4ce7c832.7010...@pcartwright.com>, Paul Cartwright wrote: >I run rkhunter, and today I got this report: > >Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and possibly a >security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of >date, and possibly a security risk

Re: Is DRI supposed to work in xserver-xorg-video-intel?

2010-11-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-11-20 19:37 +0100, Borden Rhodes wrote: > I've spent about two hours in the man pages and on Google trying to > figure this one out with no success. Admittedly, the answer is hidden in the Debian changelog: , | xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.12.0+shadow-1) unstable; urgency=low | [...

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1290183489.3477.10.ca...@firefly.bordenrhodes.com>, Borden Rhodes wrote: >Can I get a second on Teddy's opinion? I tend to believe that I just >share the Linux experience, and if I can get something useful done >whilst the computer is willing, so much the better. Is this the truth >about open

Is DRI supposed to work in xserver-xorg-video-intel?

2010-11-20 Thread Borden Rhodes
I've spent about two hours in the man pages and on Google trying to figure this one out with no success. I can't get DRI, and therefore hardware acceleration, working. Relevant info: # dmesg | grep agp [0.737743] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [0.737941] agpgart-intel :00:00.0: Intel

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-20 Thread Borden Rhodes
Can I get a second on Teddy's opinion? I tend to believe that I just share the Linux experience, and if I can get something useful done whilst the computer is willing, so much the better. Is this the truth about open source software? Maybe I am in the wrong distribution and I'm wasting the list'

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, T. Alex Chen wrote: > I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation > in > Linux, e.g. atomic_add, atomic_set, atomic_cmpset, etc, after I google on the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1158374/portable-compare-and-swap-atomic-operations-c-c-l

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add.9.gz > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_negative.9.gz > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_return.9.gz > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_u

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101119_175943, T. Alex Chen wrote: > I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says it > is > the wrong one so I post it here again. > Please bear with me if you have already seen it. > == > I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such impl

Re: Enquiry related to Debian Usage and Features.

2010-11-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:36:30 +0530 "Kambesh_Support ." wrote: > > Debian supports Java. I am planning to develop my software in Java and > install it in embedded OS. > > Does Debian supports full J2SE functions? If No, then can I install my own > JVM in debian. > If you want the official JVM,

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Dan Serban wrote: > > I will spare you the minute details for my decision, but I assume > > most of you experience the same frustrations I do. The increasing > > bloat, the never enough memory (16gb real, 32gb swap) being happily > > claimed by a single tab and xul-runner eating it all. I use FF

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 00:45, Andrei Popescu wrote: > unfortunately s/wicd/network-manager/ :( yuck Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.deb

rkhunter report

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
I run rkhunter, and today I got this report: Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'sshd', version '5.5p1', is out of date, a

Bluetooth and Blueman

2010-11-20 Thread Barry Samuels
I have had a Thinkpad R51 for some years now. This laptop has built-in Bluetooth which I have never had occasion to use until now. I have recently aquired an Android 'phone so I thought I'd try out this Bluetooth thing. The Thinkpad is running Debian Testing/Squeeze with a 2.6.34 kernel. The f

Enquiry related to Debian Usage and Features.

2010-11-20 Thread Kambesh_Support .
Hello, this is Vikas Gohil. Actually I am planning on doing some embedded development and is looking for a suitable OS. I have read about debian on your site. I need some clarification related to its use. Debian supports Java. I am planning to develop my software in Java and install it in embed

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 20 November 2010 02:58:32 Jason Heeris wrote: > On 20 November 2010 07:58, Javier Barroso wrote: > >> How can be blocked the installation of a package that is not installed? > > > > Pinning it to a negative number [1]? (I didn't try it) > > This will work for a normal package, but no

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
"T. Alex Chen" writes: > I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says it > is the wrong one so I post it here again. > Please bear with me if you have already seen it. > == > I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation > in Li

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-20 Thread Jason Heeris
On 20 November 2010 07:58, Javier Barroso wrote: >> How can be blocked the installation of a package that is not installed? > Pinning it to a negative number [1]? (I didn't try it) This will work for a normal package, but not for a virtual package, which is my original problem. Cheers, Jason -

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 19 nov 10, 22:21:59, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > > > > I thought I was alone in this, I've also ditched Iceweasel. I've > > found claws-mail to be just fine, and have recently dropped Gnome and > > replaced it with xfce. Gnome has grown fat and sluggish > > sed s/xfce/lxde/ +1, and

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 19 nov 10, 05:49:13, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> Haven't switched to IMAP yet, still on Gmail at this point. > > And what's the problem? I use Gmail via IMAP just fine. I use Gmail for the UI and the Search. Otherwise I would just run P